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My old fallback for every time I go to bed stressed is a dream that I forgot to drop a certain class my last semester of college, and I was being forced to take the exam and pass or I wouldn't graduate.

Last night I dreamed about a shower we're having at work next week. The real life part: I never ever ever agree to organize things like that, but I agreed to organizing food for this one because all it entailed was ordering sushi, which I'm good at. Except I can't decide which place to order from - cheaper but all vegetarian? Veggie and non veggie, but fewer pieces?

Last night I dreamed that I ordered a platter in the morning, and went to pick it up at lunch time. The sushi place said they were all out. I said I had ordered hours earlier, before their lunch rush, and they were supposed to have a platter ready. They said too bad. I cried. I cried and cried.
Finally, the lady behind the counter handed me a margarita, which cheered me right up.

I will not volunteer for this high-pressure position again.

Anyone else have weird stress dreams?

For many years after I started back to school (which coincides w/when I got sober) I would have these dreams where my teeth fall out. They don't just fall out whole, either, but in crumbs. Like the whole inside of my mouth just turns to crumbly teeth and they start spilling out. It was the most disturbing feeling. I don't know how accurate dream interpretation could ever really be, but most of the ones I found about losing teeth related it to anxiety about having to mature, grow-up, move on in one's life. Which fit my situation pretty well. I finally stopped having them after I got in grad school, but I was wondering just the other day if I might start having them again now that the law school thing is really gonna happen.

I have school stress dreams too...they're usually about me failing or being late for a math class in a huge Chicago public high school (a lot of them look the same). I know I'm late or I know I'm going to fail and there's nothing I can do about it...I hate that.

That teeth metaphor is interesting. I still don't feel like a grown up.

You women torture each other with these parties, showers, etc. Why do you torture each other so?

I hate them, and take part in as few as possible. The games....shudder...
I only agreed to order sushi because I love me some sushi.

My six year old son has been asking for sushi. I don't think he's ever had sushi before, but someone must have told him about it.

Good luck with the shower, sarah:)

I used to do spreadsheets in my sleep. Or organize events. Then I wake up with a raw jaw from gritting my teeth all night from stress dreams.

I have since moved out of that high intense stress job. Current job is less on those stress dreams. But I do get them from other stress triggers.

I "love" the argument in your sleep.

Randomanthony wrote: "You women torture each other with these parties, showers, etc. Why do you torture each other so? "

UGH! I always get designated as social planner, and I DESPISE that role vehemently! What I despise even more is that I accept the role usually because I know no one else will do the job/organizing as well as I'd do it (and they probably would, that's just the control freak in me taking charge). Sarah Pi, I feel your pain.

My stress dreams usually involve tornadoes coming our way... except I'm not worried about the tornado. I'm focused on getting everyone to safety.

Other stress dreams usually involve a string of events that prevent me from getting to school or to my finals on time (like having no clothes in the closet and realizing I can't go to school nekkid).

And somehow nekkidness is usually involved... but not in a dirty way - just, I can't find my clothes... or they disappear... or become invisible.

Last night I had the strangest dream I ever had before. I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war.

Imagine...

I dreamt last night that I was moving into a new house, that was all fixed up and not needing any repairs. I was enjoying the idea of a clean new house.

But then when I went into the living room, the ceiling was too low for me to stand up straight except for in the very center, like the upstairs in a craftsman.

Oh no! Good dream gone wrong! Sorry to hear about your dream house, Jackie.

We had a very tall man over for dinner last night. He used the bathroom in our basement and came back upstairs cracking up. He said he had never felt that much like he was in a hobbit house before. (Our basement has the Baltimore bathroom: a toilet on a raised throne. In most cases, it is just a toilet in the center of the basement, with no privacy. In our house, an enterprising architect built an entire bathroom up to the height of the toilet, so that you have to walk up two steps to get to it, and then duck if you're over five feet tall.)

I've been having some seriously wack dreams lately. Weird, vivid, and some quite terrifying. They're entertaining, but I wonder why they happen in waves like this?

And I once had that tooth dream, Mindy. It was when I was going through a period of complete upheaval and transition, so in retrospect, that interpretation seems pretty valid. But I remember at the time hearing some other interpretation. Where's Heidi? She's my go-to gal for dream analysis.

I had drinking dreams a lot (which is pretty standard for sober folks) until the last year or so. Those were always unpleasant upon waking b/c I had to spend several minutes convincing myself that no I didn't really drink and no I didn't lose my sober time.

I also used to have kitten dreams a lot, hundreds and hundreds of tiny, tiny kittens (like miniature kittens) everywhere and I would be desperately trying to pick them all up and save them but there were so many and I couldn't get them all. Another horrible feeling dream.

Hmmm, I don't think I ever have happy dreams...

I think my last dream was me swimming in a sea of words. Like alphabet soup only less veggies and clear water.

Don't do it Angabel.

That is a really cool dream, Tanja, do you remember any of the words in the dream?

Angabel -- you had a dream in which you took a nap? That's intriguing. You didn't dream during that nap, did you? :)

I had a dream last night - my car sucks at accelerating and won't go fast at all. and after waking up I realized I've had this dream alot, so much so that in my dream I groan and think, oh no not again, I thought that was fixed!

Are you sure you didn't just dream that, Lori? Or maybe you're dreaming this.

Lori, maybe you car takes so long to accelerate that you actually fall asleep, and there is no dream.

Is this the 21st century version of the dream where you can't run/walk fast, it feels like your feet are stuck in mud?

Huh! Bun has the same dream! I don't know why I'm so amazed - just like when I discovered that so many people have that need to take the final but you haven't been to class all semester dream.

Sally, it does seem like the same feeling behind it.

I have had dreams that actually come true, my daughter has been experiencing this also, nothing important just enough to make you go wtf

Michelle, I experience that all the time and even though the incident may not be important it usually seems to indicate an important step in the road for me. It feels like dejavu but then I remember when I dreamed it.

Mindy, I've had that crumbly teeth dream so many times I can't count. Not as much as I used to, but still. I always thought it was just me grinding my teeth in my sleep (which it may be), but I can relate to your explanation too.

In my family, I'm famous for all my crazy wacked-out dreams. It got to the point that around the breakfast table everyone would wait on me to see what my latest sleeping escapades were. Now my daughter does the same thing and I feel bad, because the dreams aren't usually the happy-go-lucky-butterflies-in-the-meadow ones. But, when they are they are the best... flying, having magic, incredible fantasy places & creatures/beings. I guess that's why I'm a writer now, trying to recapture these crazy things in my head.

Also, I've had so many dreams where I die, where I can feel the bullet/knife/rope in my skin, and I can't move but I can feel the pain. I always laughed when people would say that if you dream you die then you will, cause I've proven that wrong numerous times. Does anyone else have dying dreams?

I had another "late for a class I'm supposed to teach and can't seem to find the room" dream this morning. Although the setting was slightly different...this building looked more like Hogwarts, and I was supposed to find the room on the fourth floor, with huge, scary staircases leading the way. I was worried the students would leave because I was so late and I would get in trouble.

I don't remember more than maybe two dreams a year. By the sounds of things I should be grateful.

I had a dream last night that there was some kind of gang turf war happening out on the street. There were dead bodies everywhere, and gunshots ringing out. We were all barricaded inside while they were shooting each other out there. Eventually the cops arrived and were shining these huge floodlights on the shooters, isolating them in the middle of the street the way they do underage drinkers at a college party. They were holding up these huge sheets to block our view of them (or theirs of us) so I couldn't see just who was arrested.

Yikes! Scary!

I'm not getting involved with any attempt at interp of these dreams without an invite. This thread would overwhelm me otherwise. And I'd obsess about it.

I've been having dreams lately that are kind of weirding me out - I know at least ONE of you (if not all of you) has had this sort of dream. And I keep reminding myself that they're just dreams, not deep seeded whatever or anything else like that. Lately, I keep having dreams in which random friends (guy friends) and I, ummm... the issue is that they're in a relationship and more times than not, I'm good friends with their significant other and I've NEVER considered anything like it in reality. So when I wake up, I'm like "WTF was THAT?!!" and completely out of sorts about it. I mean, it's not like I can tell the guys or their significant others about these dreams. I get what the dreams represent, but still... it's hard to look 'em in the eyes after that.

I had a similar issue with a girl when I was in junior high. In real life, I hardly knew her. I knew of her because we were in the same grade together. In my dream, she was horribly mean and confrontational with me (she was trying to engage me in a fight, and I kept trying to reason with her). A year later, when she and I sat next to each other in class, it took me a long while to get past that dream so that I could talk to her. We eventually became friends and I told her about the dream and she though it was weird and hilarious. It helped to be able to talk to her about the dream.

I adore Heidi.

I had a dream a few years ago,it was somthing to do with my husband and another girl, I woke up pissed at him, he was very annoyed at me when I hit him, but I just couldn't stop feeling pissed at that dream.

Sally wrote: "I adore Heidi."


Moi aussi.

I don't discuss my dreams. They are private events that I cherish.

Larry wrote: "Sally wrote: "I adore Heidi."


Moi aussi.
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Me, three. :)

tadpole - no. I don't recall the words. That's when I wish I wrote down my dream immediately upon waking.

In grade school, I had a dream about some girl and we were chatting. It felt like we were friends. Years later, high school, I'm talking to some girl and when our conversation was EXACTLY like the dream, I went WHOA in my head. Deja vu. I felt like a putz if I told her, hey I met you YEARS ago in a dream.

Truth is that happens to be somewhat frequently. Except the deja vu dream may not hit me until months to years later. It's kinda freaky.

Heidi - NEVER had those dreams. OMG! I'm tattling to the tabloids about you. ...
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Naw. I have had that type of dream. I consider it a way to get those inner demons out or be wackadoodle in your dreams. It doesn't hurt anyone so long as in reality you don't act on the dream.

Michelle wrote: "I had a dream a few years ago,it was somthing to do with my husband and another girl, I woke up pissed at him, he was very annoyed at me when I hit him, but I just couldn't stop feeling pissed at t..."

Ha....my youngest son once dreamed his older brother was picking on him, so he got up in the middle of the night, punched his sleeping older brother, and woke him up. That was an interesting night, no doubt.

Heidi, I had dreams like that, where I was with my at-the-time good friend's hubby. Oh my! And it was goooood. Thank god I didn't see him for a week or so later, the dream was no longer so vivid.

I've also had the dream for years and years that I'm with my ex (it's been more than 25 years now) and I wake up in a panic, and realize it was just a dream and thank the gods for that! Not someone I want to be with again, thank you very much.

Sally wrote: "I adore Heidi."

:) (what'd i do?)

Michelle, your friend/husband dream wake-up made me laugh out loud (because that's what I do).

You are lovably enthusiastic and positive, Heidi.

(Stop praising Heidi, please. She doesn't handle it well. Next thing you know she'll be saying she can defeat me in competition. And we all know that's not true.)

Unless it's a squeeing competition, RA. She'd wipe the floor with you!

Tanja wrote: "In grade school, I had a dream about some girl and we were chatting. It felt like we wer..."

That happens to me frequently, too... well, more frequently than I'd like it to happen. Mostly, I just want it to NOT happen because when it does, I end up having this expectation of portend or... !DOOM! and then when nothing happens, I just think, "What was the significance of that happening? Twice?!! WTF!!!?!"

Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Unless it's a squeeing competition, RA. She'd wipe the floor with you!"


That is true. I concede.

I'd be pleased to see you squee (no dirty birds - totally g-rated intention here) just once, Anthony, even if it's just on the threads. In fact, is it weird that I get a kick out of imagining provoking a squee out of each of you at one time or another. Or really... ANY of you guys. I would LOVE to make KD squee over ice cream... or tadpole over kawaii... or RA over LOLcats... or Jackie over Gerard Butler... or Sally over her garden... or Matty over a well-played joke!!!


I mean, seriously!!! It'd be fun to see a thread full of:


OMG!

!!! \0/ !!!

OMGGGGGGGGG!!!!

!!!

I've seen Gus squee in person. It's pretty darned cute when a guy squees. :)

Gus...by all means, tell us about your squeeing! Heh.

It involved his cutie pie 2 year old.

I would like more information on unmanly things Gus has done, please, Heidi.

His wife unmans him. :) I'm sure most of your wives do... and if you're smart, you'll admit it. Gus does. Readily.

And watching Gus feed Sophia in her high chair in a greasy dive was the highlight of my evening... esp. when he took his eyes off her for TWO seconds and I watched her grab his basket of fries and throw them on the floor. It. Was. Awesome. I thought he was gonna have a meltdown.

Now, the fries thing is not unmanly at all. I've been there myself. That's manly, if you ask me.

But...did he cry during The Notebook? Hold hangs and sing in a circle? Listen to Coldplay?